Dick Cavett Biography

In 1968 ABC signed DICK CAVETT as the host of a morning talk show which eventually led ABC to give Cavett his own late night program opposite The Tonight Show. Cavett was the host of The Dick Cavett Show which won three Emmys and aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982. He also hosted talk shows on the USA HBO and CNBC cable networks. The Dick Cavett Show aired for six seasons on CNBC. He hosted many additional shows including Faces of Japan -- a series for PBS as well as two HBO specials on magic and three HBO series: Time Was Yesteryear and also Remember When. He appears frequently on Imus in the Morning HuffPost Live and other interview programs including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and The Dave Hill Explosion; he was nominated for his eleventh Emmy Award in 2012 for the HBO comedy special Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again.
Dick Cavett was born in Kearney Nebraska in 1936. Growing up in Lincoln Nebraska Cavett won national fame as a trophy-winning teenage magician and was a state champion in gymnastics on the pommel horse. In 1954 he earned a scholarship to Yale University where he majored in English and Drama. At Yale he appeared in numerous radio and stage productions while spending his summers working at the Oregon and Stratford (Connecticut) Shakespeare Festivals and the Williamstown (Massachusetts) Theatre Festival.

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